iShares U.S. Carbon Transition Readiness Aware Active ETF
$82.44−0.53 (−0.64%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.30%
- Fund size
- $1.3B
- 1Y return
- +15.4%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.95%
- Holdings
- 330
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $82.97
- 52W range
The ETF.net LCTU Grade
Score 78 of 100 sits in the A band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.AScore 85Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 79Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 59Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 82Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 81Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 87Category rank
Our read on LCTU
AThe ETF that showed up with the biggest first day in fund history. BlackRock scores Russell 1000 companies on how ready they are for a low-carbon economy, then over- and underweights about 300 of them.
LCTU pursues long-term capital growth through U.S. large- and mid-cap equities that BlackRock judges more capable of benefiting from the shift toward a low-carbon economy.
Why people hold it
- 0.30% a year for active management, less than half the typical fee in its active US large-cap peer group.
- Not a sector purge: it starts from the Russell 1000 and tilts weights, so you keep broad large- and mid-cap US exposure across about 300 names.ishares.com
- Seeded in 2021 by a consortium of institutions including CalSTRS, and it has stayed a multi-billion-dollar fund since.nasdaq.com
- Sits among the strongest-rated active US equity ETFs we cover, with steady trading and quarterly distributions.
Worth knowing
- The readiness scores are BlackRock's own model, not a published index rulebook you can audit line by line.
- Cheap for active, but core active peers like DFAU (0.12%) and AVLC (0.15%) cost less if the climate tilt is not the point.
- All-equity and US-only: it moves with the broad market, and the carbon tilt can push results away from the Russell 1000 in either direction.
LCTU Holdings
- Stocks
- 330
- 35%
- NVDA
Sectors
- Technology37.5%
- Financials12.0%
- Consumer Discr.9.8%
- Health Care9.5%
- Communication9.0%
- Industrials8.4%
- Cons. Staples4.3%
- Energy3.4%
- Real Estate2.3%
- Utilities2.1%
- Materials1.7%
Geography
- United States98.48%
- Ireland1.08%
- Bermuda0.13%
- Sweden0.09%
- Puerto Rico0.08%
- Luxembourg0.06%
- Brazil0.05%
- Cayman Islands0.03%
LCTU Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
Returns run to the Sep 22, 2026 close, with cash distributions reinvested. Each period starts on the same date that many months or years earlier. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
| Period | LCTU |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +12.8% |
| 1 month | +0.9% |
| 3 months | +4.5% |
| 1 year | +15.4% |
| 3 years | +22.0% |
| 5 years | +12.2% |
| 10 years | — |
Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.
| Year | Return bar | LCTU |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +12.8% | |
| 2025 | +17.0% | |
| 2024 | +24.0% | |
| 2023 | +25.4% | |
| 2022 | −20.0% | |
| 2021 | +17.5% |
LCTU in the news
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LCTU Dividends
- 0.95%
- $0.79
- $0.20 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 2026 | Sep 18, 2026 | $0.20 |
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $0.18 |
| Mar 17, 2026 | Mar 20, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $0.25 |
| Sep 16, 2025 | Sep 19, 2025 | $0.18 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $0.16 |
| Mar 18, 2025 | Mar 21, 2025 | $0.16 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $0.23 |
| Sep 25, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.25 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $0.16 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 27, 2024 | $0.17 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $0.22 |
LCTU Risk
- 13.1%
How it’s calculated: standard deviation
The sample standard deviation of monthly total returns, multiplied by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Total returns include reinvested distributions.
- 1.12
How it’s calculated: Sharpe ratio
Subtract each month’s Treasury-bill return from the fund’s monthly total return.
Divide the average of those excess returns by their sample standard deviation, then multiply by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Each month uses the Treasury yield quoted at the end of the previous month.
- −25.9%
How it’s calculated: maximum drawdown
The largest percentage decline from an earlier peak, using total returns with reinvested distributions.
Uses up to five years through the last close, with at least 12 months required.
- 1.01
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
LCTU Cost
- The middle half of US Active Equity funds
- Median 0.70%
17 of the 124 US Active Equity funds charge less.